When the two entered, Elder Gu could not even be bothered to lift his eyelids. He still held a faintly glowing spiritual herb, slowly roasting it with a wisp of yellow pill flame at his fingertip.
His tone was filled with an elder's reproach and impatience toward his juniors.
"Elder Gu, we made it back right on time!"
"Not only that, we brought an incredible treasure back to our Fire Domain!"
Xiao Yao was not afraid of this old stick-in-the-mud at all. She darted two steps forward and pulled Oscar out from behind her.
"This is Oscar, an explorer who ascended from a Lower Plane!"
"He has an amazing craft that completely overturns our Great Thousand World's traditional pill theories!"
"What unorthodox nobody from a Lower Plane dares speak of overturning anything in the Pill Examination Pavilion?"
At those words, the pill flame in Elder Gu's hand paused slightly.
He finally raised his cutting eyes and swept an utterly disdainful gaze over Oscar's robes, which still bore a little dust from the small city.
"You two young fools went out for some experience, and even your brains were blown senseless by the Blood God Clan's poisonous winds?"
"I've refined pills for hundreds of years. What miraculous medicinal method haven't I seen?"
"Bring it out. Let me see what sort of crooked trick managed to hoodwink even disciples of my Endless Fire Domain."
Oscar did not get angry at those words.
Without any hesitation, he reached into his robes and took out an oilpaper packet. He casually grabbed a meatball fried black, smaller than a longan, and tossed it onto the raised platform.
"Here, old sir. This is it."
Looking at that greasy black medicinal ball, actually fried in an ordinary iron cooking wok, Elder Gu's brows immediately knotted into two